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• donsprintr 2,063 Posts

  Wed, Dec 24 2014 6:07 PM

  bubbsboy:

  More pins on existing courses would help a bit, now that should not be too difficult ?

  New set of pins for Oakmont for the U.S. Open coming in 2016 according to WGT ... and I would expect a new set of pins for Pinehurst within the next .... (insert subjective timeframe) ...

  They're more than likely going to be busy with Pebble and Chambers Bay , so we may not get those new pins on Pinehurts soon.

  A new set on Olympic and RSG are way overdue ...

• courteneyfish 15,796 Posts

  Wed, Dec 24 2014 8:40 PM

  bubbsboy:

  More pins on existing courses would help a bit, now that should not be too difficult ?

  Only possible if the photos were taken at the time.

• bubbsboy 6,879 Posts

  Fri, Dec 26 2014 8:12 AM

  courteneyfish:

  bubbsboy:

  More pins on existing courses would help a bit, now that should not be too difficult ?

  Only possible if the photos were taken at the time.

  mmmmmm more forward planning was needed then. Saying that it cant be easy doing all those shots, to be honest still cant get my head around how they did it, but the courses mentioned with 1 pin position are getting a bit stale indeed. 

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Fri, Dec 26 2014 12:14 PM

  bubbsboy:

  mmmmm more forward planning was needed then. Saying that it cant be easy doing all those shots, to be honest still cant get my head around how they did it,

  From this thread:

  MisterWGT:

  We shoot multiple pin locations and have done so for every stroke-play course.  That said, each pin location equates to several thousand photos to review, edit, color-correct and insert into the game.  Thus, over the years, it's always a balancing act between new course production schedules & additional hole locations.

  - MisterWGT

  They did their forward planning.  And if they followed their Hole Location sets they would have shot 3 pin locations, Easy, Medium and Hard.

• JasonBlazer 2,246 Posts

  Sun, Dec 28 2014 4:23 PM

  ZioMio:

  Lute345:

  Does it cost that much more for WGT to do the whole course versus just the CTTH?

  Great video, that should be mandatory watching for every member of WGT, especially before granting posting privileges...LOL

• bubbsboy 6,879 Posts

  Mon, Dec 29 2014 10:47 AM

  Good stuff, lot of work i stated on earlier post and now  know it.

• TopShelf2010 10,931 Posts

  Mon, Dec 29 2014 6:39 PM

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• tommyb4 34 Posts

  Tue, Dec 30 2014 1:10 PM

  Admin is right on for this one.  Not long after I started playing here regularly, I remember reading that it takes 100,000 still shots to shoot a course for us to play.  I don't think that includes the helicopter shots.  I wouldn't mind seeing more courses from tru-golf or whatever it's called, like Cabo and Whistler.

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Fri, Jan 2 2015 7:19 PM

  I believe they said it takes 200,000 to 300,000 still shots to produce an 18 hole course.

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Sat, Jan 3 2015 8:57 AM

  TopShelf2010:

  Great stuff Z. Thanks for posting this. We need to ban together and get a Sticky on this. Also, WGT should have this posted on the Main Page somewhere. A very educational tool with regards to its content.

  Ditto---to add, it would be neato to see how this was done at Cabo & Whistler